Handle for manure-forks and analogous tools



( o Model.)

J. M. YOUNG.

HANDLE FOR MANURE FORKS AND ANALOGOUS TOOLS. No. 252,167; Patented Jan. 10,1882

\/\/ITI\JEEEEE:

K4444, Qizwi UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN M. YOUNG, or BALDWIN'SVILL NEW YORK.

HANDLE FOR MANURE-(FORKS AND, ANALOGOUSTdOLS.

SIEGIFIGATION forming' part of Letters Patent No. 252,167, dated January 10, 1882. Application filed August 4,1881. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN M. YOUNG,'of

Baldwinsvill'c, in the county of Onondaga, in

the State of New York, have'invented new and useful Improvements in Handles for Manure scription. Vi

with its'upper-r or free end ceivethe usual cross-piece orspool Forks and Analogous Tools, of which the lowm g,

partying drawings,

fol-

This inventionrelates to that class of handles in whicll ftfhe" stem is composed oi metal tubing; it providing sai tern wil h the so-calld; f" D-ha'ndle, all as hereinafter more fully explained.

The invention is fully illustrated in the annexed drawings, wherein Figure 1 shows a piece of metal tubing handle is'formed, 'Fig'. 2'is a view of the same distended to re and form the so-called Dead) and Fig. 3 shows the bandle complete, withtheexception' of a portion of one side broken away to illustratethe attachment otthe handle to the tool.

' Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts;

other simila -tool. Said handle is composed of a piece of'wrought-metal tubing of the reqni site length and 'bent into the usual form. The interiorof the lower end of this handle 1 maintain ini ts origiiial cylindrical form of uniform diameter, audinto this I drive a wooden plug or lousli,'a, which is also cylindrical and made to press with its entire length against the intakenfin connection with the acconl is a full, clear, and exact de- I consists in impror'ed means of I cross-piece,

from which my improved terior ofthe handle,and thus obtain a firm hold in the same. If necessary, Ire-enforce the said end of the handle by applying to the exterior thereof a ferrule, b.

The fork F, I provide with ashank or tang, O, which thereby attach the handle H to said fork.

The upper or free spread the divided parts asunder and bend them into the requisite shape to receive between their extremities the spools or other which I secure in the-usual way by arqd passing through the spool and through the divided ends of the handle, thus forming a strong and durable handle by simple and com paratively inexpensive njeans.

Havingdescnbed my invention, what I'claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,

18- 'lhehandle H, composed of metal tubing, and having its upper and split longitudinally and distended, as showmfor the purpose of receiving between its extremities the spool s or other cross-piece,

, set forth. H d'euotesthe handle of a inanurefork or In testimony whereof I have hereunto signed my name, and aflix'ed my seal, in the presence of two attesting witnesses, at Syracuse, in the county of Onondaga, in the State of New York, this 29th day of July, 1881.

' JOHN M; YOUNG. [L. s]

Witnesses: a

W. L; FRAZER, WM. G. RAYMOND.

I drive into the wooden bush a, and

substantially as shown and end of the handle H, I split longitudinally into two parts, and then 

